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thank you. >> thank you. >> ryan, he wasn't alone in voting no. a lot of people have concern about this filibuster bill, that it's so watered down, it doesn't go far enough. i mean it may help with some things like the kinds of delays in appointments that the president has complained about to things like judges. is it a step in the right direction, or is it really just an end around? >> no, it's a serious step. it will quicken the pace of legislation getting through the senate. but there was a fundamental divide here. do you want to maintain the status quo which is that everything needs 60 votes in order to move forward and the minority can block legislation by simply standing up and saying, yes, i object and then leaving the chamber. that's how the situation runs now. that's how it will run after this. that situation gives individual senators an enormous amount of power. clearly enough of them were not willing to give that up in order to make the entire institution run a little bit better. and you can see the reasoning from their perspective. why
thank you. >> thank you. >> ryan, he wasn't alone in voting no. a lot of people have concern about this filibuster bill, that it's so watered down, it doesn't go far enough. i mean it may help with some things like the kinds of delays in appointments that the president has complained about to things like judges. is it a step in the right direction, or is it really just an end around? >> no, it's a serious step. it will quicken the pace of legislation getting through the...
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ryan was. the fact is, though, that that committee came up with a mixture of tax increases which we've had and spending cuts which we haven't had and haven't had any cooperation with democrats in the senate to begin doing. what you saw, just before we left for the district work period for various activities like meeting with world economic leaders here in davos is we moved it 90 days so we could attempt one more time to pass a budget, something that would allow us to let public and private leaders around the world have confidence in what our spending is going to be and that in fact we're going to pay our debts. >>gretchen: one other big topic that happened on capitol hill this week was of course that the current secretary of state, outgoing hillary clinton, she finally came to the table to give her testimony on benghazi. but did the whole point of the hearing -- there was a lot of controversy about that video as being the reason why that attack had originally happened instead of calling it a te
ryan was. the fact is, though, that that committee came up with a mixture of tax increases which we've had and spending cuts which we haven't had and haven't had any cooperation with democrats in the senate to begin doing. what you saw, just before we left for the district work period for various activities like meeting with world economic leaders here in davos is we moved it 90 days so we could attempt one more time to pass a budget, something that would allow us to let public and private...
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ryan's proposal last year. >> well, father enough. and i supported mr. ryan's proposal last year. i was encouraged that it received some bipartisan support. i would hope in the future it might get a bit more. but, mr. hogue lambed, to continue with you -- hoagland, to continue with you, the road map, if you will, in order to arrive at a spot where we can get concrete ideas from democrat leadership, from the president of the united states about how to make these largest programs of government sustainable is through regular order. could you bring us through that regular order -- >> i'm a, i'm a regular order guy. i've spent my career here. i believe that the power of making legislative decisions lies with committees such as this very powerful committee here that i think it's better that the decisions in terms of what legislation could flow forward come out of the committees. therefore, that's why i believe a budget resolution that is put together that sets the broad parameters for how much you're trying to achieve in the way of deficit reduction work through the committees of jurisd
ryan's proposal last year. >> well, father enough. and i supported mr. ryan's proposal last year. i was encouraged that it received some bipartisan support. i would hope in the future it might get a bit more. but, mr. hogue lambed, to continue with you -- hoagland, to continue with you, the road map, if you will, in order to arrive at a spot where we can get concrete ideas from democrat leadership, from the president of the united states about how to make these largest programs of...